102 Minutes
I came across a post by Kris of Dummocrats this morning where she wrote about reading a book by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn called 102 Minutes. She peaked my interest enough that I went out and bought a copy for myself. Started reading it in Borders and the print just about jumped off the page.
The book is first hand accounts of many of the people caught in the Twin Towers on 9-11-01 and what they went through to survive. From the second paragraph of the author's note:
No single voice can describe scenes that unfolded at terrible velocities in so many places. Taken together, though, the words, witnesses, and records provide not only a broad and chilling view of the devastation, but also a singularly revealing window onto acts of grace at a brutal hour.
I paid 26 dollars. If you click the Amazon box at the top left sidebar on this page, you can get it for 17.16 and if you order within the next hour or two (4:30 CST) you can have it tomorrow. ( I wish I had seen that sooner. I'd be almost 8 dollars ahead. heh. If you scroll down the Amazon page to the reviews of the book, you'll find one by Rick Bryan who was on the 89th floor of one of the Towers. His story is as riveting as the book.
Wow. I'm glad I inspired you to buy it. I hope you like it. For 9/11 books, however, I actually think that a book called "Never Forget" is better. But, both do a good job of telling the kinds of stories you never really heard in the news.
Posted by: kris | July 21, 2005 at 04:21 PM